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The Plight of a Beautiful Tree

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by Will Parrish on Dec 5th, 2012The Kashia Pomo of northwestern Sonoma and southwestern Mendocino Counties refer to it as “Chishkale,” meaning “beautiful tree.” Northern California pioneers selected their name…
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21st Century Timber Wars

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Anderson Valley Advertiserby Will Parrish on Aug 9th, 2012 At Sierra Pacific Industries’ sawmill on the Samoa Peninsula, where the Mad River Slough meets Humboldt Bay, eight miles southwest of Arcata,…
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Hack & Squirt, Part 2

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by Will Parrish on Jul 25th, 2012From a ridgetop knoll on Bald Hill, in Anderson Valley’s “Deep End,” the Rancho Navarro home of Elaine and Mike Kalantarian affords a generous…
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Hack and Squirt, Part 1

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Anderson Valley Advertiserby Will Parrish on Jul 18th, 2012From the massive landed estates of Roman antiquity known as latifundias, to those of modern-day Latin America, to the railroad, wheat, timber…
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